There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
RUDYARD KIPLINGFollow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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